Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussed. The Chinese hope to finance their modernizations through development of oil exports, through joint ventures in which they pay off their debts in goods manufactured in foreign-built mainland factories, and through their immense human resources: manpower and discipline. One shadow over the New Long March, however, is doubt that the primitive Chinese economy can rouse itself to meet the price. One freewheeling guess is that the Four Modernizations could cost $800 billion by 1985 The Chinese consumer market may be a long time in developing. Despite all the current capitalist visions of the new market opening...
Nonetheless, the speed with which the Administration accepted the agreement contributed to doubts, even among supporters of normalization, about whether the U.S. got the best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...
...goal set at the Camp David summit. That deadline was not to be met. Together, Egypt and the U.S. arrived at compromises on the few remaining points that were not settled at Camp David. But the Israelis rejected the proposals with an intemperate rebuke that threw into doubt both the immediate future of peace negotiations and of U.S.-Israeli relations...
Still, the missing of last Sunday's target date was highly symbolic. Said Carter at a press conference earlier this month: "If the Egyptians and Israelis violate the three-month limit on negotiating this treaty, it will be a very serious matter ... It would cast doubt on whether the Egyptians and Israelis would carry out the difficult terms of the upcoming peace treaty...
...devised a more precise explanation of gravity?the universal "glue" that pervades everything, from minuscule atoms to massive stars. Yet for all the significance to modern physics of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity, his complex equations have still not been proved beyond a shadow of a scientific doubt...